Feasibility of Replacing Electronic Gearbox with LinuxCNC on RZ300E Gear Grinder

I think this should be do-able, it sounds like this is a grinding-hob style of machine? I have been cutting gears with LinuxCNC for more than 10 years (since the idea of electronically synching spindles first ocurred to me) (I invented the idea of electronic gear hobbing, but I probably didn't invent it _first_

You could certainly simulate most aspects of such a machine using Vismach, but simulating the actual stock removal falls outside of the capability of Vismach.

Do you have an "articulated" 3D model of the machine?

I haven't made helical gears, but I am sure I could if I wanted to. It's just a matter of increasing the hob angle and adding in a proportion of the feed distance into the gear blank angular position.

Some links: My first YouTube video (filmed with a potato) where I explain the concept.



The current, much improved setup:



A screenshot of my (written just for me, so not very pretty) GUI. Of note is the top left section that calculates gear parameters based on entries in any gear system (mod, dp, cp). You will see that helix angle is included in the settings, but is currently not implemented.

wiki.linuxcnc.org/uploads/Screenshot.png

And all the files that are used are here:
wiki.linuxcnc.org/uploads/hobbing.zip